Dana Thomas, an expert commentator, who we’ve referenced in other commentaries on luxury — a cultural correspondent for Newsweek has written a summary of her experiences in her book. She also notes, in her article, the notion of companies preaching a kind of high artistry that they undermine in building low-income worker populated “Chinese-worker” cities in Italy, production factories in India.

But regardless of the high-minded sense of locality to the future of luxury, it goes high or low — the highest point of production value to the lowest shop around the corner — the beauty of experiencing the alignment of place to making is a happy preoccupation. There’s a certified sense of truth in being somewhere that things are made — right here — to look upon, buy, savor and carry away.

It’s also uncommon.
The idea of localized production is a rarity.
That can make the experience all the more special. Point might be — who is that for you? What do you recall as a place where you buy is just there made?

Memorable —
which would be the most important —that which
is
unforgettable.

The cartography of brandfire: the story of highest road, the path of the middle story told, and the cumulus of the multiple tales — the grounding ley-line of the promise — the mission of the everyday. I’d offer a theory of the narrative cloud — the stories that surround the misted power of an enterprise…

Working from Scratch: Customized Type Face Design, Font Development and Motion Picture Design The presumption is — design by hand and the work is better. Is that right? In the study of aligning idea to shining, brand to epiphany, inspiration to magic — there is the path to create solutions that are founded on “out-of-the-box…